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girasoli ~ I originally chose this name when setting up a yahoo email account many moons ago (or at least it seems that way now). My real name is such a common name that it was always taken. Even my last name is a pretty common name except for the extra “e”. But, I decided right away against using my last name because too many people call me by my last name and that really irritates me.

Still I needed to think of a user name. I decided on coming up with a unique Italian name. During my first couple of visits to Italy, I fell in love with the fields of sunflowers. And so I found my user name, the Italian word for sunflower ~ girasole. Unfortunately it was taken. Now I know that I am a singular person and "girasoli" means sunflowers (a plural word), but the only way I could use sunflower in Italian to create this new email account was to combine the Italian word for "two" with “girasole” and because I was now making the word plural, I changed girasole to girasoli (to be grammatically correct).

Since then, I have used girasoli in various combinations as well as by itself. To stay grammatically correct, I tried to use girasole when alone but it just got too confusing for both me and for my family and friends to remember when to end the word in an "i" or an "e"....and that is how I became to be known as ~ girasoli.

Now, hoping not to confuse anyone further, I am adding a photo of a sunflower (singular) ~ il girasole. I took this photo while on the island of Burano two years ago.